Hello, ZCatalog is already included in Zope (you will find it in zope/lib/python/Products/ZCatalog ) You will have to declare the objects' attributes as catalog indexes, and make sure you index or re-index any object after creation or modification. Regarding the rest, I am not sure to understand what you want to do exactly, but if it is a kind of search/replace thing, you will be better to make a small script to do that than to do it manually in ZMI. Eric On 4/10/07, Peppe Top <peppetop@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi all,

I'm new to Zope and I'm reading through a few tutorials and the Zope book. I need to do a text string search on a ZODB and I need to know which objects contain the string.

Example: I have a site running up, and I need to know where my mail is mentioned, so I can edit each object and update the mail. (I think using ZMI)

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From the documentation I think that ZCatalog might do the trick, but I'm not sure it's the easier solution.

Am I on the right path?

Can you get me started?

I just need a fixed string search, returning the name (maybe the path too) of the object inside the ZODB, so I can later edit.

Is ZMI the right tool to do simple editing?

Also is ZCatalog already included in Zope, or do I need to install it?

Thanks a lot for your time -- Peppe _______________________________________________ Zope maillist - Zope@zope.org http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev )